"CAM Overview" is
a 2 hour talk which covers the following topics: History
of alternative medicine and scientific medicine, patterns
of use of CAM,
costs of CAM, people's reasons for choosing CAM, common
misconceptions about
CAM, why testing for safety and effectiveness is important,
and public
health problems associated with belief in unproven therapies.
"CAM dangers" is
a 40 minute talk focused on some of the problems caused by
patient faith in unproven therapies: financial harm,
miseducation, delay in
seeking proper care, and diversion from truly effective
treatments.
"CAM Insurance"
is a 1-hour presentation geared towards health
administrators. This presentation covers definitions
of CAM, the history of
CAM and scientific medicine and the key differences between
them, the
reasons why scientific medicine has superseded what came
before 1900,
demographics of CAM use and methods by which good research
can be sorted
from bad when determining which therapies are truly beneficial.